Crew News
HWT
fall / 2014
COACHES CORNER Dear Alumni, Family and Friends, We concluded the fall racing at the Princeton Chase. Our ‘A’ boat finished 2nd to Princeton and our ‘B’ boat finished ahead of all the other ‘B’ boats and many ‘A’ boats as well. The ‘A’ boat started in the 19th slot. We were leading at the end of the mile and three quarter straightaway, however, we had to go on the outside of the large turn to pass Wisconsin, which cost us considerable time. All that being said, our crews raced well. The racing at the Head of the Charles was also promising. The ‘A’ boat finished 10th overall and 6th amongst the collegiate crews. Harvard was the fastest of the collegiate crews, then there was a cluster of 5 crews that were within 5.3 seconds of each other, Washington, California, BU, Princeton and Yale. The ‘B’ boat did not fare as well at the Charles – it CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO was their first row together.
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Dear Alumnae and Friends, For the first time in my 18 years at Yale I walked into the tanks at 6:45 Monday morning after Thanksgiving vacation and every athlete was sitting on an erg, warmed up and ready to work. We started 5 minutes early!! This team, dare I say……Likes to Train!! The ’14-15 YWC team is an even balance of 10 first year, 10 soph, 8 jrs and 10 srs. We are not individually great but we are a good team. We are the second smallest team in the Ivy League which means we are thin and we must maximize every athlete we have. As we start the year we are void of big erg scores but ready to do the work to manufacture some horsepower. We might just get there by the spring, if not we will be closer. I look for teamwork and toughness to carry this group in our spring racing. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
Dear Alumni & Friends, Y150 had a good fall, with over four eights from all classes rowing almost daily out of Gilder and almost as much on the C2 erg in Payne Whitney. Assistant Coach Ned DelGuercio is back, as is volunteer Ian Duthie who is in charge of the walk-ons. Captain Matt Cecil ’15 leads the team. The Y150 Crew Association has been showing all the associations the way on and off the water, with a tremendous Y150 flotilla racing it up at the Housatonic in October, and of course sustaining the usual positive support of the YCA through the Y150 Alumni Head Coaching endowment and Annual Giving. In fall racing, we didn’t find combinations that clicked at either the Housatonic or the Charles; we finished a fading 7th CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO